Euclid's Elements

there is little to no information about who his mother is, it is believed he is the biological son of a Greek man named Naucrates who lived in Damascus, while Euclid’s grandfather is thought to be Zenarchus. It is said that wealthy people during this age owned slaves. Even though there aren’t many historical artifacts showing proof that Euclid’s family had slaves, it is quite probable that they did due to their known wealth and style of living. Educational Background. It is known that only the wealthy

Euclid of Alexandria “The Element” Euclid, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, lived from 323-283 BC. He was a famous Greek mathematician, often referred to as the ‘Father of Geometry”. The dates of his existence were so long ago that the date and place of Euclid’s birth and the date and circumstances of his death are unknown, and only is roughly estimated in proximity to figures mentioned in references around the world. Alexandria was a broad teacher that taught lessons across the world. He taught

Math through the Ages provides an interesting and concise analysis of the mathematical culture of different societies in history. The section “The History of Mathematics in a Large Nutshell” provides an interesting discussion of Greek mathematics. The mathematics of the culture both influenced and was influenced by the culture of the society. The Greeks were most likely the most important historical society in the Western world. They spread their vast knowledge and affected the mathematical traditions

During the 1800s, we find the theme of independence, or freedom from outside constraints, in the development of two different frontiers. We find it in the American West through Manifest Destiny, freedom from caste, and in the chance that homesteaders had to acquire virtually free land. We find independence in math through in the building of stronger theoretical foundations, non-Euclidean geometries, and Cantor's infinities. Independence involves breaking from the commonly accepted, traditional

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Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician who was born around 569 BC in Samos, Ionia, which is in Greece and died around 475 BC. Pythagoras is extremely important in the field of mathematics and made many contributions to geometry. Not much is known about the early life of Pythagoras. However, it is known that his father, Mnesarchus, was a merchant and that Pythagoras traveled frequently with his father (“Pythagoras of Samos,” n.d.). Thales and Anaximander were philosophers who are believed to have

In today’s essay , I will writing about Pi. You may know Pi from school , it consists of 3.14159 and so on. Although we’ve all most likely used it, what more do you know about Pi rather than using it in formulas ? Today I will enrich your knowledge of Pi by presenting you with facts . Many of us believe that Pi was invented by the mathematician named William Jones In the 1700’s. This isn't entirely false but it’s not exactly true . Jones was known for using the Pi symbol to represent the ratio

which he paired each of the four classical elements, earth, air, water, and fire with a regular solid. Earth was paired with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron. The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato says that, "...the god used for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven". Aristotle later added a fifth element, the ether and postulated that the heavens were made of this element, but he had no interest in matching

Menaechmus was an ancient Greek mathematician and geometer. He was born in Alopeconnesus in the Thracian Chersonee. Gallipoli is an Italian word derived from the Greek, it was known as the Thracian Chersonese. He was born in the 380 BC, in Gallipoli, Turkey, and died in 320 BC. Menaechmus was known for his great friendship with the philosopher Plato, Menaechmus discovered the conic sections and the solution to the problem of doubling the cube, using a parabola and hyperbola. He knew that in the

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